An employee of Oklahoma City Public Schools came to district headquarters near NW 10th Street and Western Avenue last Wednesday and spotted a black dog in the parking lot with a padlock around its neck.

“I carry a rescue kit in my car, so I opened my door and started throwing some Beggin' Strips her way. She was very guarded, wanted them but didn't want to come close,” Tiffany Kinsey, an employee with OKCPS explained to KOCO 5.

For nearly an hour, Kinsey tried to get the black pit bull to come to her.

“I was starting to earn her trust and then I had a co-worker who pulled up who had been to McDonald's for his breakfast and he gave her that as well. Then we had her trust after bacon,” Kinsey shared. The dog then jumped in her car.

According to Kinsey, “She just let out a deep sigh and fell asleep and was snoring within minutes and I just started crying thinking when is the last time she felt safe enough to go to sleep?”

Kinsey then got a better look at the lock on the dog's collar. She removed the padlock and gave the dog the name "Paddy." Then she started looking for the dog’s owner.

“The dog from what I understand was chained in the home …no air, nothing in the house, with the dog food bag on the front porch,” said Kinsey.

Neighbors told Kinsey the dog was locked up in a vacant unit of a duplex.

“The man that I spoke to said that he believed the dog was stolen because the woman who previously lived at the duplex showed up one night with the dog and then she left,” Kinsey stated. Kinsey said the dog also had its nails clipped and appeared well cared for at some point.

Paddy is now with a vet in quarantine. Kinsey is footing the bill. She hopes to find Paddy's rightful owner or a new loving home.

“She deserves it. I made her a promise and I have to keep that,” Kinsey said.